First, there are some albums that rip off a series of great tracks one right after another. I'm not sure if A Deeper Understanding is such an album for anyone else, but for me, I just love it. It feels so sonically whole. It's repetitive, but not stale; a little up beat, but with a sound that I just want to dip right into. That last note, having a sound I can just lose my imagination in really resonated with me yesterday on a long run while listening to this song, Strangest Thing. It's a long, slow, ballad, that just blossoms at different points. I don't know if you're familiar with what happens when you put a little soap in water, but it's a lot like that. I just feel this surface tension break and ripple out. Not much happens, but a lot happens in it. The guitar quality reminds me of other slow burners, like Peace in the Valley (a stupendously underrated Dawes song) and At Least That's What You Said by Wilco but with far less rage. It's interesting, all of these songs have lyrics that deal with desperation, isolation, and something breaking or needing to break through. Of all three of these songs though, deeper understanding has the softest bloom in it's drop, and it, for me, is a slow, rhythmic, riding forward and falling back, where as the other two are far more scorching and linear.
I'll also post up and say I loved looking back almost 10 years and seeing a song I didn't recognize as a previous song of the week, Girl Boy Tom. I've now seen and am reading Dune (and I love it) and the mesmerizing, driving, sci-fi-almost-sounding anti-hero-drive-over-a-hellscape-vibe of GBT kind of fits. Good stuff.
Here's Strangest Thing by War on Drugs. Enjoy. And shoutout to Connor Barwin (and his foundation which does great work in Philly) for putting me onto the band a few years ago.
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